Education
Bachelor, Yale University, 1985. Graduate in comparative literature, Cornell University, 1987.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1985. Graduate in comparative literature, Cornell University, 1987.
Author, teacher memoir writing workshops, 1995—2010. Columnist, feature writer Village Voice, New York City, 1987-1995. Columnist The Advocate, Los Angeles, 1991—1993, 1994—1996.
Resident Ledig House International Writer's Colony, 2004. Consultant episodes and script Public Broadcasting Service documentar, Public Broadcasting Service/ITVS Series, New York, 1993. Lecturer Yale University, Cornell University, Pace University, American Library Association, others, since 1987.
Performer, reader Iowa Public Radio, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Los Angeles, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) Bar, others, since 1995. Teacher writing workshops 92nd St. Y., New York City Lesbian and Gay Community Center's In Our Own Write Program: The Kitchen performance space. Presenter in field.
Author: (memoir) Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God and Fury, 1998 (Lambda Literature award, Best Book on Religion and Spirituality 1998). Producer: (performances) Violent/Christ, 2000, Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy and Cruel, 2000. Guest: (television and radio) Charlie Rose Show, National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, NBC Nightly News, Nightline, Bob Grant Show, Cable News Network Morning News, since 1990.
Contributor essays to New York Times Book Review and articles to various magazines.
Member National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, Brooklyn Society Ethical Culture.